Adobe OpenType Tutorial: Simple Wine Bottle Text Wrap

Heres’ a quick and easy tutorial on using Adobe OpenType fonts. I never knew how awesome these fonts are until I used them and discovered their features. OpenType ® is a cross-platform font file format developed jointly by Adobe and Microsoft. They are superset of the existing TrueType and Adobe PostScript Type 1 font formats. Aside from their cross-platform portability feature, they also provide rich linguistic support, powerful typographic capabilities, and simplified font-management requir

Tilt-Shift Generator: web app per applicare un suggestivo filtro …

lug21 Generatori, Web News Add Tilt-shift, se non avete mai sentito parlarne, è una speciale tecnica che consente di mettere a fuoco solo un area dell’immagine. Continua la lettura con la fonte di questo articolo:Tilt-Shift Generator: web app per applicare un suggestivo filtro …Articoli correlati:Bloginmano: Tilt-Shift Generator: Effetti Tilt-Shift da applicare …Applicare online effetto Tilt Shift sulle proprie foto | Matteo DiniKeith Loutit ed i suoi mini mondi + Tutorial Photoshop sull

21 Vintage Poster Designs from Around the World

Here are 21 vintage poster designs from a few different decades, and from all over the world. It’s amazing and great inspiration to see how they can differ, yet be eerily similar as well. Many designers that follow the recent trends will notice modern web design is straying back to the classic days of graphic design. Related posts: 17 Web Designs with Interesting Perspective Web design can take on a lot of forms, but… Photoshop Tutorial: Vintage Photo There has been a new tutorial a

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Photoshop Textures and Blend modes

Hi, I am a Web and Graphic designer living in Colorado and have been asked by the folks at reencoded to write some articles for their blog.  I’ll be doing some pieces on Photoshop and web design. In my tuts I will be original and always include two or more downloadable full-sized images or practical code demos that you can hopefully use for something right “out-of-the-box.” Today I’m going to begin a Photoshop tutorial on textures and blend modes. This technique is one I use often when desig

Photoshop Textures and Blend modes

Hi, I am a Web and Graphic designer living in Colorado and have been asked by the folks at reencoded to write some articles for their blog.  I’ll be doing some pieces on Photoshop and web design. In my tuts I will be original and always include two or more downloadable full-sized images or practical code demos that you can hopefully use for something right “out-of-the-box.” Today I’m going to begin a Photoshop tutorial on textures and blend modes. This technique is one I use often when desig

In choosing a CMS: 40+ Great CMS Theming Tutorials

In choosing a CMS , one thing you should consider is the theming or templating process. While some CMSs have very simple and easy-to-use theming systems, others can be a real bear to use. Below are tutorials for some of the more popular CMSs out there. Some have tons of tutorials available (WordPress, Drupal, Concrete5) while others have limited documentation outside of the official site (Magnolia, Umbraco, TYPOlight). Some CMSs we’d planned to feature had little readily-available theming doc

Creating an Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper

There are plenty of ways to create a Watercolor Effect in Photoshop. Some are very cheesy and you can easily tell that a simple filter has been used. In this tutorial, we will be using Layer Masking. It is one of the most fascinating and powerful Photoshop method, to use layer masks in your designs.   Preview of Final Image     Let us start off by creating a canvas of 1920X1200 pixels, in RGB mode. I found a picture of Jim Morrison (you can obviously use any of

Design a Premium Theme Marketplace Layout Using Photoshop

Today we’ll be going through the process of designing the homepage for premium theme marketplace using Photoshop. There are new theme sellers popping up every day, so this type of site should be relevant for many people. Throughout the tutorial, most of the screenshots of the design in progress can be seen in full-size by clicking on the image. Here is a look at the end result of what we will be designing (click to see in full-size). Step 1: Create a new document Create a new doc

30 Beautiful examples of tilt-shift photography

( photo by alastair mitchell ) Tilt-shift photography is a creative and unique type of photography in which the camera is manipulated so that a life-sized location or subject looks like a miniature-scale model. To add good miniature effect to your photographs, shoot subjects from a high angle (especially from the air). It creates the illusion of looking down at a miniature model. A camera equipped with a tilt-shift lens , which simulates a shallow depth of field, is essentially all yo

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